Aethelflaed Lady Of MERCIA7,149,747,827 was born
in 869. She died on 12 Jun 918 in Stratfordshire (In Battle).
Also Known As:<_AKA> Ethelfleda
or Tamworth1 CAUS hit in the face with a mace in battle at Stratfordshire
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she continue d to rule after her husband died in 911, thoughsubject to her brother,
EDWARD T HE ELDER of Wexxes. shefostered and raised AEthelstan, Edward the Elders
eldest son.

Motherhood was ok, she thought; it was labor that was the pits.Aftr th e birth
of her first daughter, therefore, Aethelfledpolitely told her hubby Eth elred
"not tonight, not ever, honey"and swore herself to chastity. Unlike
othe r royal couples wecould mention, this royal twosome of ninth-century Anglo-Saxo
nEngland still worked together. Aethelfled for one couldn't getenough of the
b attlefield; swords in hand, the two often wentinto battle. There was no shorta
ge of battles to attend,either: At that time, the island was a real rat's nest
of smallquarreling kingdoms. Aethelfed's father, known to history asAlfred th
e Great, had spent most of his life fighting the Danes,who at that time thought
of England as "the Viking destinationwe'd most like to pillage and burn."After
her dad and husband died, Aethelfled kept up thepugnacity. She managed to pul
l the quarreling mercians ofcentral England into some semblance of untiy and
wa s called"Lady of the Mercians" in gratitude. At forty, this workabholicSaxon
s pent the next eight years building fortresses, leadingtroops into Wales, helpin
g her brother Edward out militaryily,and negotiating alliances between the equa
lly prickly Brits,Picts, and Scots against the Danish Vikings. For a breather,
she captured the strategic cities of Derby and Leicester.Eventually, Aethelfled
came to be looked upon as the unofficalruler of both Danes and Mercians. Give
n how well the femininetouch had worked thus far, everyone sort of expected Aet
helfed'sdaughter to be the next ruler.Sure enough, when Aethelfled finally caug
ht the wrong end of amace in battle at Stratfordshire in 918, daughter Aelfwyni
nherited the crown. About ten minutes later, however, heruncle Edward convenie
ntely "forgot" about the years of miitaryhelp his sister had given
him, pushed aside female heir Aelfwyn,and made himself king of England. Parents:
Alfred Of England OF WEST SAXON and
Queen Of Ethelswida ENGLAND.

Lady Aethelgyth Of MERCIA7,10,33,64,243,342 was born
about 855 in . DATE 7 MAY 2000

DATE 7 MAY 2000

I wish I was sure of every name in this file &amp; that I didnt
need to know what you think :) hey, but always refinin g this,
So if you spot a place where Im just flat wrong please tell
me or som eone I didnt go on out with, I do this file out of fun and wanting
to know, but do not
respond to the 'know it alls' , that dont have manners.I dont
consid er them Kin!
Thanks and Happy Hunting! Parents: AETHELWULF.
Parents: . Parents: . Parents: Ealdorman
Of Mercia ATHELWULF. Parents: .

per Weis' " AR" (1B:23)(176:2)(176A:3), he was Earl of East Anglia
1053, Earl
of Mercia 10 57, banished 1058.

According to "A Genealogy of the Southworthe (Southards), by Samuel G. Webber:
"Leofric's son was Algar III, whose two sons were killed in contests against
William the Conqueror. His daughter and heiress, Lucy, o btained the parental
estates and married Yvon Taylboys, Earl of Angiers in Fra nce, and baron of
Kendal. . . . give's her no children by Taylboys, but mentio ns children by her
second and third husbands. . . mentiona s son, Eltret or Ug htud, living in
1106, as if he were the son of Yvon Taylboys . . . Documents g iven by . . .
confirm. Eltret's or Ughtud's sonwas Ketel or Chetel, whose son was Gilbert,
whose son was William FitzGilbert. Parents: . Parents: Earl Of Mercia Leofric OF MERCIA III and Lady Godiva Countess Of MERCIA. Parents: Earl Of Mercia Leofric OF MERCIA III and [Countess Of Mercia] GODGIFU. Parents: . Parents: . Parents:
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[NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: Alt. Birth] She was
born on 31 Aug 981 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Mercia).20,35,81,115 She died
on 10 Sep 1067 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Mercia).20,35 She was
also known as Godgifu. She was buried in Coventry, Warwick, England.
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Godiva, Lady (flourished about 1040-80), Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, wif e of Leofric,
earl of Mercia (flourished 1005-57). She is known to have persua ded her husband
to found monasteries at Coventry (1043) and Stow. According to legend, she obtained
a reduction in the excessive taxes levied by her husband o n the people of Coventry
by consenting to ride naked through the town on a whit e horse. Only one person
disobeyed her orders to remain indoors behind closed s hutters; this man, a
tailor known afterward as Peeping Tom, peered through a w indow and immediately
became blind. The oldest form of the legend is in the 13t h-century Flores Historiarum
(Flowers of the Historians). A festival in her hon or was instituted as part
of Coventry Fair in 1678.

Th is is the famous Lady Godiva. She complained constantly to her husband that
th e taxes were too high on the townspeople of Coventry. He finally said that
he would reduce the taxes if she would ride nude through the marketplace on market
day. She arranged for all of the men to remain inside and covered her entire
body, except her legs, with her hair. Supposedly one person named Tom did not
r emain inside during her ride and became known as "Peeping Tom".
Leofric elimi nated all taxes, except for one on horses. During Edward I's
reign, a check wa s made and the only tax in Coventry was one on horses. Since
1678 the town of Coventry still celebrates the ride during its annual fair.

Concerning her da tes of birth and death. I originally had 980-1067, but this
was not in agreeme nt with Ancestral Roots line 176a-2, which has her birth at
c1010 and her marri age at c1030. Nor was it consistant with the Encyclopedia
Britannica which had Godiva fl. 1040-1080. However the 980 birth date was consistant
with her gr g randaughter Nesta b. c1055/7, dau of Edith, dau of Aelfgar, son
of Godiva. Wit h some serious scrunching of dates I could conceive of:

Hereward Thegn Of MERCIA7,105,516 was born in 1004 in Barholm, Lincolnshire, England.
He died after 1086 in Witham, Lincolnshire, England.105 Hereward, Mercian Thegn, who led the Anglo-Saxon resistence
to William I (The C onqueror) 1071 and who apparently got back his pre-conquest
lands at Witham, Ba rholm, and Rippingale about the time of the Domesday Suvey
1086. [Burke's Peer age] Parents: Earl
Of Mercia Leofric OF MERCIA III and [Countess
Of Mercia] GODGIFU.

Lucia Of MERCIA6,7,35,36,106,115,130,215,216,217,248,262 was born in 1032 in Mercia,
England.35 [NEED TO DEFINE
SENTENCE: Alt. Birth]946,2332 She died between 1057 and 1143 in , , England.115,946,2332 She was also known as Lady
Of Mercia. She was buried in Spalding, Lincoln, England.
[NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: Alt. Death] Name Suffix:<NSFX> **
! RELATIONSHIP: H. Reed Black is 25th G G Son.(Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of
Chester) m. Lucia, widow of Roger de Romara, Ear l of Lincoln, and dau. of Algar,
the Saxon, Earl of Mercia. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages,.
Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Me schines, Earls of Chester]

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"...Stephen juggled his earldoms in 1140, transferring William of Albini
to Sussex and making William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln. William de Roumare
was half brother to Ranulf, Earl of Chester , both sons of Lucy, who is thought
to be the daughter of Thorold, sheriff and castellan of Lincoln Castle. William
was the son of Lucy's second husband, Roge r fitz Gerold, and Ranulf, the son
of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, Ear l of Chester." [Stephen and
Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53, Jim Bradbury, Al an Sutton Publishing Ltd.,
Great Britain, 1996]
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On CD-100, Autom ated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, Lucy is reported
to be the daught er of Beatrice Malet; no father is given nor is the ancestry
extended beyond Ma let. Three genealogies on the Automated Archives, Automated
Family Pedigrees #3 , CD-#102 give Ives/Ivo (de) Taillebois and Lucy/Lucia of
Mercia as the parents of Lucy "The Countess," giving her the last name
of Taillebois. On Brøderbund WFT, Vol. 3, Tree #3334, Ivo and Lucia are
again given as the parents; I suspec t the source of this information is CD-102.

Interestingly enough, in six dif ferent genealogies on CD-102, Thorold is reported
to be the father of Lady Godi va!!! That would make Lucy and Godiva sisters,
although they were born almost 1 00 years apart.

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The following copied from www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/research/prosop/PRS PN2.stm,
gives the latest research on the ancestry of Lucy:
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Antecessor Noster:
The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain

A lot of ink has flowed on the subject, but there can be no doubt that the 'mysterio
us' Countess Lucy of Chester was William Malet's thrice-married granddaughter,
the daughter of Robert Malet's sister and Turold the Sheriff of Lincoln (dead
b y 1079). The suggestion was first made by R. Kirk in 1888. As N. Sumner has
mor e recently observed: 'This account has the merit of explaining why the lordship
of Spalding and other places in Lincolnshire were held after Ivo's death not
b y Beatrice, his direct heir and the daughter of his marriage to Lucy, but by
th e later husbands of Lucy, Roger fitz Gerold and Ranulph Meschines.' It is
clear from her charters that Lucy was an heiress; as was to be expected, her
estates passed to the sons of her second and third marriages. Kirk's work was
based up on conjecture, and contained a number of errors. The question of Lucy's
parenta ge has therefore remained open. Nevertheless, there is proof that Kirk
was righ t.

A spurious charter of Crowland Abbey made Turold of Bucknall (the Sheriff ) the
founder of the priory of Spalding as a cell of Crowland. It also called T urold
brother of Godiva countess of Mercia, but subsequently described Godiva's son
Earl Algar as Turold's cognatus (cousin). A genealogia fundatoris of Coven try
Abbey made Lucy a daughter of Earl Algar and sister and heiress of earls Ed win
and Morcar. The Peterborough Chronicle and the Pseudo-Ingulf's Chronicle of Crowland
both made Lucy the daughter of Algar and niece or great-niece of Turo ld. We
know that William Malet was half-English, so these traditions probably b oil
down to a relationship between Countess Godiva and William's English mother .

In 1153 a charter [RRAN, III, 180] of the future Henry II for Lucy's son R anulf
II of Chester referred to her uncles Robert Malet and Alan of Lincoln. Al an
of Lincoln was the successor, and almost certainly the son, of Domesday's Al
fred of Lincoln. Chronologically, it is most unlikely that Alan was Lucy's uncl
e. It was probably another of Alfred's sons whom Domesday described as Alfred
n epos [nephew or grandson] of Turold, then holding a fee which was certainly
the reafter held with the rest of the senior Alfred's fee by his heir Alan. Domesda
y provides a further indication that Alfred senior married another of William
M alet's daughters when it names a William as Alfred's predecessor in two of
his manors. Other parts of each of these manors (Linwood and Rothwell) were held
in 1086 by Durand Malet, who was probably William's son. It seems that Henry's
ch arter can be explained by seeing a scribe, perhaps in search of rhetorical
bala nce, commit the error of ascribing two uncles to Lucy, instead of a niece
(Lucy ) and a nephew (Alan of Lincoln) to Robert Malet, who was uncle to both.

Tu rold is evidenced in Domesday Book as a benefactor of Crowland Abbey, to which
he gave a parcel of land at Bucknall. The abbey also held land at Spalding that
had probably been granted to it by Earl Algar and there is evidence to suggest
that Turold the Sheriff gave further land there to the abbey of St Nicholas,
A ngers, before 1079. Lucy and her first husband Ivo Taillebois subsequently
foun ded, or perhaps re-founded, a priory at Spalding subject to St Nicholas,
Angers . A revealing phrase from the Register of Spalding Priory reads: 'mortuo
quia d icto Thoraldo relicta sibi herede Lucia predicta' [at his death Turold
left an heir, the aforesaid Lucy]. The word heres, 'heir' Parents: Earl Of Mercia Alfgar III Earl Of MERCIA. Parents: . Parents:
Earl Of Mercia Alfgar III Earl Of MERCIA
and Princess Of Wessex\ Alfgifu ENGLAND.
Parents: . Parents: Earl Of Mercia
Alfgar III Earl Of MERCIA and Alversa
MALET.

Lucia Of MERCIA7,946,2232,2332 was born in 1070 in Mercia,
England.946 She died Deceased.946,2332
[NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: Unknown-Begin] (Ranulph de Meschines,
Earl of Chester) m. Lucia, widow of Roger de Romara, Ear l of Lincoln, and dau.
of Algar, the Saxon, Earl of Mercia. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct
Peerages,. Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Me schines, Earls of
Chester]

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"...Stephen juggled his earldoms in 1140, transferring William of Albini
to Sussex and making William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln. William de Roumare
was half brother to Ranulf, Earl of Chester , both sons of Lucy, who is thought
to be the daughter of Thorold, sheriff and castellan of Lincoln Castle. William
was the son of Lucy's second husband, Roge r fitz Gerold, and Ranulf, the son
of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, Ear l of Chester." [Stephen and
Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53, Jim Bradbury, Al an Sutton Publishing Ltd.,
Great Britain, 1996]
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On CD-100, Autom ated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, Lucy is reported
to be the daught er of Beatrice Malet; no father is given nor is the ancestry
extended beyond Ma let. Three genealogies on the Automated Archives, Automated
Family Pedigrees #3 , CD-#102 give Ives/Ivo (de) Taillebois and Lucy/Lucia of
Mercia as the parents of Lucy "The Countess," giving her the last name
of Taillebois. On Brøderbund WFT, Vol. 3, Tree #3334, Ivo and Lucia are
again given as the parents; I suspec t the source of this information is CD-102.